Please, do NOT force your toddler to hold the pencil the way a school child does, with 3 fingers on the pencil â you may do more harm than good. It is very hard to âunlearnâ a poor pencil grip later in life! Each stage of holding a pencil or crayon is dependent on how âsteadyâ the shoulder and arm muscles are.
In the equation of a straight line (when the equation is written as  y = mx + b ), the slope is the number  m  that is multiplied on the x, and  b  is the y-intercept, where the line crosses the y-axis.
The slope is a measure of the steepness of a line, or a section of a line, connecting two points. In this lesson, you will use several different formulas for slope and learn how those formulas relate to the steepness of a line.o, the slope of the line segment (the slope between the two points) is m = 3/2. In mathematics class, you may memorize a formula to help you get the slope. The formula looks like this: This formula is really the same thing as we used before. The top says to take the two y-values and subtract them.